Bil­lions spent on health care im­prove­ment

China has spent US$871bil­lion (F$1.79tril­lion) in the re­form pe­riod since 2009 to im­prove its health­care sys­tem. The health bud­get for 2016 is US$190bn ($F392bn), said the Na­tional Health and Fam­ily Plan­ning Com­mis­sion (NHFPC) on Thurs­day, adding that the av­er­age an­nual growth rate of med­i­cal in­put has sur­passed 20 per cent over the past seven years. Xin­hua